Waywheat

The upside-down grain

"Aye, that there wheat ain't growing normal. What's this rubbish meant to be?"
- A mildly disgruntled farmer

Though waywheat is very similar to normal wheat, it is distinctive in that where normal wheat grains grow up and away from the stem, waywheat grains grow down and away from the stem.

Usage

Found and cultivated by the Northern towns of Kubicha, waywheat has become somewhat of a commodity due to its innate medicinal properties.
When waywheat is crushed and ground up, and baked into bread, biscuits, or other wheat-based delights, a healing warmth will spread throughout the eater's body, healing most minor injuries. The consumption of waywheat products has become somewhat of a celebratory ritual as well, and most royals have their grain-based foods made of waywheat to have the constant healing available to them.
When aided by other healing magics, waywheat does have the ability to return life to the recently departed, though this is not something considered as an innate effect of waywheat and does not always result in successful rejuvenation of the deceased. In very few cases, the magics have restored life to the deceased, but caused them to have a new life of undeath, rather than return to their original life.

Ailments

An allergy to waywheat is not uncommon and tends to be accompanied by a general wheat allergy, however, providing your allergy to it is not severe, it can be cured by ingesting a waywheat based product. There are a few cases, however, of complete immunity to the healing properties of waywheat. Though this is generally only exhibited by Elves, other races have succumbed to it as well.

Ecology & Habitat
Though it can be grown almost anywhere, waywheat prefers grasslands with moist, nutrient filled soil.
Geographic Distribution
Limited to the grassland regions of the main continent of the Eight Lands.